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Gee, Syd, I cant do that kind of math in my head when myengine is out and I'm looking for a landing spot/trying to restart.. :) -Matt N2864H > -----Original Message----- > From: Sydney Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:55 PM > To: Ed Burkhead > Cc: Coupe-List > Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] Re Glide ratio > > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any > advice in this forum.]---- > > > It looks like I finally get a chance to correct Ed. That's really hard > to do. > > The formula for the area of a circle is pi x R squared. If the radius > of our gliding circle is 10 miles, we square that, giving us 100, and > multiply that by pi, 3.14159, which gives us a circle of 314.159 square > miles to land in. We have a fairly good chance of finding a decent spot > in that many square miles. > > Syd Cohen > ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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